The dilation order, the dispersion order, and orderings of residual lives

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 263-275

  Belzunce, F ^a   Pellerey, Franco ^b   Ruiz, J M ^a   Shaked, Moshe ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF URBINO   (Italy)

^c University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

DFR; Dilation order; Dispersive order; DMRL; Hazard rate and reverse hazard rate orders; IFR; IMRL; Increasing convex order; Log concave and log convex distribution functions; Mean residual life order; NBUE; NWUE and HNBUE aging notions

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031554143     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0167-7152(96)00136-8     Document Type: Article

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